Windows Binary Compatible, ReactOS 0.4.0 Released

The ReactOS community announced release of ReactOS 0.4.0, latest stable main line release of windows binary compatible, independently evolved open source operating system. This release of ReactOS comes 10 years after previous main line release, ReactOS 0.3.0.

ReactOS team is proud to say that, this release is both a celebration of and a testament to everything that the ReactOS team and community has achieved together. Within previous 10 years, there were several test builds to check each and every improvement made to this dream operating system.

According to official release announcement, following are some notable highlights of this release.

ext2 read/write and NTFS read support

New explorer shell and theme support

SerialATA support

Sound support

USB support

VirtualBox and VirtualPC support

Wireless networking

CMake support for GCC and MSVC compilation

Compilation times significantly improved

GDB remote debugging interface for kernel debugging

WinDBG support

In additions to these improvements, there are several improvements in building system, file system support, graphics, memory optimization, networking, NTVDM, registry, shell, storage, USB, visuals..etc.